Wednesday, May 20 @10:00 – 11:30

TS1: Resource Allocation and Performance Optimization, Room: D

Chair: Giovanni Stanco (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)

SLA-Aware Scheduler and Resource Allocation Control in Digital Twin-Enabled O-RAN –Mahnoor Yaqoob and Ramona Trestian (Middlesex University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Van Thi Thanh Nguyen (Phenikaa University, Vietnam); Duc To (Rakuten Symphony, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gia Khanh Tran (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan); Huan X Nguyen (Middlesex University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Extending the NS-3 Simulator for Supporting ORAN-Based VR Traffic Adaptation in 5G NR and Beyond (6G)– Georgios Gkagkas, Angelos Michalas, Nikos Dimokas and John Vardakas (University of Western Macedonia, Greece); Vasiliki Karamerou (University of Thessaly, Greece); Spyridon Nikolaou and Dimitrios J. Vergados (University of Western Macedonia, Greece)

OTFS-SWIPT: Optimal Power Allocation with Frequency-Domain Equalization–Guoyu Chen and Peiran Wu (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Does PREOF Introduce More Problems than Solutions in RPL Multipath over CSMA/CA?–Tomás Lagos Jenschke (IMT Atlantique, France); Georgios Z. Papadopoulos (IMT Atlantique & IRISA Laboratory & IRISA Laboratory, France)

Wednesday, May 20 @12:00 – 13:30

TS2: AI and Machine Learning for Communications (1), Room: C

Chair:Ahmet Kaplan (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)

CICA-SON: Collective Intelligence for Conflict-Aware Functional Split Selection in Self-Organising O-RAN– Hamed Alimohammadi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ayhan Akbas and Ender Sevinc (Ankara Bilim University, Turkey); Marco Sousa (Celfinet and Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Chuan Heng Foh and Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Machine-Learning-Based Classification of Radio Frequency Building Loss– Jiayi Tan (Ericsson, Sweden); Neelabhro Roy and James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Rohit Chandra (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Tsao-Tsen Chen (Ericsson, Sweden)

Online Machine Learning for Predictive Executor Memory Scaling in Apache Spark Streaming– Athanasios Kordelas and Nikos Deligiannis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

A Space-Air-Ground Architecture with LSTM-Enabled Traffic Prediction for SDN-Orchestrated Multi-Layer 6G/MCX Networks–Konstantinos Maliatsos (University of Aegean, Greece & University of Piraeus, Greece)

WANDA: An Agentic Wireless Ad Hoc Network Digital Twins Architecture–Ioannis Matsoukas and Thomas Tsouparopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Yannis Thomas (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece); Stavros Toumpis and Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

TS3: Network Modelling, Analysis, and Measurement, Room: B

Chair: Georgios Tsoumanis (Ionian University, Greece)

COOPER: An Open Dataset of Synthetic Mobile Network Performance Indicators for Reproducible Research–Marco Sousa (Celfinet and Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Madalena Cilínio (CELFINET, Portugal); Thaína C. Saraiva (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); Luís Miguel Mata (Instituto Superior Técnico & Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal); Pedro Vieira (Instituto de Telecomunicações / ISEL, Portugal)

EVT-Based Generative AI for Tail-Aware Channel Estimation–Parmida Valiahdi (Koc University, Turkey); Niloofar Mehrnia (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Sinem Coleri (Koc University, Turkey)

A Large-Scale Experimental Analysis of ROS 2 Instances Exposed on the Internet–Giovanni Stanco (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy); Antonio Iardino (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Alessio Botta (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)

Performance Evaluation of a Proposed Reward-Based Recharging Policy in Wireless Sensor Networks–Georgios Tsoumanis and Athanasios Tsipis (Ionian University, Greece); George Koufoudakis (Bracket Group Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nikolaos Giannakeas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Katia Kermanidou and Konstantinos Oikonomou (Ionian University, Greece)

5G RedCap Vs FullCap UEs: Energy Insights–Sofiane Messaoudi (EURECOM, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)

TS4:Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Room: D

Chair: Dimitrios Tyrovolas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & University of Patras, Greece)

Experimental Evaluation of RIS Configuration Strategies for Multi-User Communications–Alexandros Ioannis Papadopoulos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Information Technologies Institute, Greece); Dimitrios Tyrovolas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & University of Patras, Greece); Stavros Tsimpoukis (University of Ioannina and AUTH, Greece); Antonios Lalas (Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas (CERTH), Greece); Konstantinos Votis (Information Technologies Institute, Centre For Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Sotiris Ioannidis (Technical University of Crete, Greece); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Christos Liaskos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)

On the Performance of Uplink Channel Estimation in the Presence of Uncoordinated RIS Interference–Abdelrahman Ahmed Elkhateeb and Youssef Nasser (Greenerwave, France); Julien de Rosny (CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, France)

Experimental Performance of a 5G N78 Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: From Controlled Measurements to Commercial Network Deployment–Sefa Kayraklık (Koç University & Tübitak Bilgem, Turkey); Samed Keşir and Batuhan Kaplan (Turkcell, Turkey); Ahmet Muaz Aktas (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye & BİLGEM, Turkey); Emre Arslan (Koc University, Turkey); Ahmet Faruk Coskun (Turkcell, Turkey)

Deep Learning Based Antenna Selection Technique for RIS-Empowered RQSM System–Burak Ahmet Ozden (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey); Fatih Cogen (Turkcell, Turkey); Erdogan Aydin (Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey); Mehmet Basaran (Turkcell, Turkey & Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Ertugrul Basar (Tampere University, Finland & Koc University, Turkey)

Explainable Detection and Trust-Aware Mitigation of Malicious IRS Behavior in Multi-IRS 6G Networks–Zeina Youssef (University of Tartous, Syria); Ramah Juha (University of L’Aquila, Italy); Ayham Alyosef (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Genova University, Italy); Naji Mohamad (University of Tartous, Syria); Roberto Valentini (University of L’Aquila, Italy)

Wednesday, May 20 @14:30 – 16:00

TS5: Network Security, Trust and Privacy, Room: C

Chair:Mert Nakip (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Dynamic Beam Scheduling for Physical Layer Security and Phase Exposure Reduction in UAV Aided Links–Spyros Lavdas (The American College of Greece, Greece); Nima Imani (American College of Greece, Greece); Mubashar Sarfraz, Athanasios Ktenas, Vasiliki Kaparou and Constantinos B. Papadias (The American College of Greece, Greece)

Toward Sustainability-Aware Decentralized Federated Learning for Anomaly Detection in 5G and Beyond 5G–Nasim Nezhadsistani, Chao Feng, Youssef Ehab Youssef Farag and Francisco Enguix (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

PROMETHEUS: A Physics-Aware Bayesian Architecture for Dynamic Risk Assessment in Cyber-Physical Systems–George Lazaridis (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece & International Hellenic University, Greece); Amalia Damianou (Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas, Greece); Avraam Bardos (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Antonios Lalas (Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas (CERTH), Greece); Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University, Greece & University of New Mexico, USA); Konstantinos Votis (Information Technologies Institute, Centre For Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Dimitrios Tzovaras (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)

ELEVATE-Ing Security: A Unified Benchmarking Framework for Industrial & IoT Environments–Nikolaos Vakakis, George Lazaridis and Mariana S. Mazi (Pragma IoT SA, Greece); Dimitrios Kyrgiafinis (Pragma IoT S.A, Greece); Dimosthenis Ioannidis, Lambros Makris and Konstantinos Votis (Pragma IoT SA, Greece)

Performance, Energy Efficiency, and Security of Distributed rTPNN for TinyML-Enabled Smart Homes–Mert Nakip (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland); Mikołaj Macura (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)

TS6: Network Security, Trust and Privacy, Room : B

Chair: Hamed Alimohammadi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Raycom: A CLI-Based Digital Twin Tool for RF-to-Image Reconstruction Using Ray-Tracing and GANs –Ioannis Kokkinis (University of Ioannina, Greece); Christos Liaskos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)

Intelligent Mobility Management in UAV-Assisted Cell-Free 6G Networks: A Comparative Study of Fuzzy Logic and Deep Q-Network Approaches–Konstantinos Ntararas, Dimitrios Ntoulas, Zoe Rizou, Dimitrios J. Vergados and Angelos Michalas (University of Western Macedonia, Greece)

LLM-Driven Green and Trustworthy AutoML with Voronoi-Based Optimization for Network Automation–Andreas Andreou (University of Nicosia, Cyprus); Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia & University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); George Mastorakis and Athina Bourdena (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece); Evangelos K. Markakis (Hellenic Mediteranean University, Greece)

Beyond Accuracy: Practical Aspects of Machine Learning for Early Detection of Optical Network Failures–Paolo Terzano (University of L’Aquila, Italy); Koteswararao Kondepu (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India); Carlo Centofanti (University of L’Aquila, Italy & WEST Aquila SRL, Italy); Graziano Battisti (University of L’Aquila, Italy); Andrea Marotta (University of L’Aquila, Italy & WEST Aquila SRL, Italy)

Validating Threat Modeling Results with the Help of Vulnerable Test Applications–Oleksandr Adamov, Davide Fucci and Felix Viktor Jedrzejewski (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden); Ricardo Britto and Nishrith Saini (Ericsson AB, Sweden)

Auto-Unrolled Proximal Gradient Descent: An AutoML Approach to Interpretable Waveform Optimization–Ahmet Kaplan (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)

Thursday, May 21 @14:30 – 16:00

TS7: 5G/6G and Beyond, Room: B

Chair: Apostolos Xenakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)

Performance Evaluation of Dynamic LDPC Base Graph Selection Under Rayleigh and Rician Fading–Dimitra Moraiti (University of Thessaly, Geopolis Campus, Larisa, Greece); Dimitrios Kosmanos, Apostolos Xenakis and Costas Chaikalis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University, Greece & University of New Mexico, USA)

A Blockchain Smart Contract Framework for Decentralized xApp Governance in O-RAN–Juan Minango (CPqD, Brazil); Alberto Paradisi (CPqD Foundation, Brazil)

Mobility and Energy Optimization via 6G Digital Twins: Radio-Informed Deep Q-Network Approach–Umma Fariha Zhinuk, Aleksandr Ometov and Joonas Säe (Tampere University, Finland); Jussi Turkka and Jarno Niemelä (Elisa Corporation, Finland); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland)

Orchestration-Centric Management for Asset-as-a-Service Systems–Michail Dalgitsis, Berend Jelmer Dirk Gort, Lazaros Liatsas, Maria A. Serrano and Godfrey Mirondo Kibalya (Nearby Computing, Spain); Dionysios Xenakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Fogus Innovations and Services PC, Greece); Angelos Antonopoulos (Nearby Computing, Spain)

From Coherent to Incoherent: Validity Bounds and Oblique-Incidence Extension for Sub-THz Penetration-Loss Modeling–Qiang Wu and Weiqing Huang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

TS8: Verticals, Services and Applications, Room: D

Chair: George Xylomenos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Multi-Hop Heterogeneous UAV Swarm Networking for Post-Disaster Internet Access- Rodolfo Vera-Amaro (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, UPIITA, Mexico); Noé Torres-Cruz (Instituto Politécnico Nacional & UPIITA/CIC – IPN, Mexico); Angel L. Montiel-Cruz (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN, Mexico); Alejandro Alemon-Pérez and Jesús I. García-Arguello (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, UPIITA, Mexico)

FUSION Collector: QoS-Aware Multi-Tenant Telemetry Ingestion for OpenTelemetry- Alexandros Stylos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Ioannis Tzanettis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece); Grigorios Kakkavas (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) & National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece); Gerasimos Mountakis, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos and Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

A Web-Based Simulation Interface for Fire Dynamics Analysis and Decision Support,-Ioannis Karakonstantis and George Xylomenos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

A Multi-Layer Framework for Semantic Perception and Infrastructure Support in Autonomous Driving, Diego Gasco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy & Stellantis, France); Franck Guillemard and Saleh Bensator (Stellantis, France); Claudio E. Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

An Intent-Based Architecture Integrating SON and Semantic Compression for IoT-Enabled Public Safety Networks, Gerasimos Stamatelatos (University of Athens, Greece); Aggeliki Sgora (Ionian University, Greece); Dimitrios Zorbas (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan); Nancy Alonistioti (University of Athens, Greece)

Visual Contact in Network Music Performance, Konstantinos G Tsioutas and George Xylomenos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Chrisoula Alexandraki (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece)

Friday, May 22 @14:30 – 16:00

TS9: Resource Allocation and Management, Room: B

Chair: Athanasios Tsipis (Ionian University, Greece)

An Open Data Framework for Artificial Intelligence-Native 6G Networks– Engin Zeydan (CTTC, Spain); Bartlomiej Siniarski (MBP Network Technology, Ireland); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland)

A Use Case Analysis for Identity Management in Industrial Systems–Engin Zeydan (CTTC, Spain); Abdullah Aydeger (Florida Institute of Technology, USA); Tharaka Mawanane Hewa (University of Oulu, Finland); Bartlomiej Siniarski (MBP Network Technology, Ireland); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Quality of Service-Oriented Trajectory Planning Model for Intelligent Transportation Systems–Alessandro Aparecido Milan (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil); Natalia Fernandes (Universidade Federal Fluminense & Midiacom, Brazil); Dianne Medeiros (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Joint Trajectory-Resource Allocation Optimization for SWIPT Mobile Networks-Georgios Kallitsis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Eleni G Stai (NTUA, Greece); Vasileios Karyotis (Ionian University & NETMODE Lab, NTUA, Greece); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Toward Real-Time Mirrors Intelligence: System-Level Latency and Computation Evaluation in Internet of Mirrors (IoM)–Haneen Fatima, Muhammad Ali Imran and Ahmad Taha (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lina Mohjazi (Glasgow University, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & School of Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

TS10: Physical layer and MAC layer design, Room: D

Chair: Dimitrios Efstathiou (International Hellenic University, Greece)

A Novel Ray Tracing Framework for Codebook Compliant Programmable Wireless Environments– Stavros Tsimpoukis (University of Ioannina and AUTH, Greece); Dimitrios Tyrovolas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & University of Patras, Greece); Antonios Lalas (Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas (CERTH), Greece); Alexandros Ioannis Papadopoulos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Information Technologies Institute, Greece); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Christos Liaskos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)

Uniform Triangular Arrays with Varying Number of Elements for Multi-Panel Hexagonal Antennas–Dimitris Orlis and Dimitrios Efstathiou (International Hellenic University, Greece)

A Framework for Reliable Cell-Free mmWave Massive MIMO Networks Under Human Blockage–Ayham Alyosef (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Genova University, Italy); Ramah Juha (University of L’Aquila, Italy); Rawad Hamdan (National University for Science and Technology, Iraq); Andrea Marotta (University of L’Aquila, Italy & WEST Aquila SRL, Italy); Roberto Valentini (University of L’Aquila, Italy)

Pinching Antenna-Assisted Differential Spatial Modulation–Yusuf Akar (Tampere University, Finland); Mahmoud Raeisi (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey & Koc University, Turkey); Ali Tugberk Doğukan (Koç University, Turkey); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland); Ertugrul Basar (Tampere University, Finland & Koc University, Turkey)

Input-Truth Polarization-Aware Pruning for Efficient Non-Binary Polar Decoding–Abdallah Abdallah (Université de Bretagne Sud, France); Camille Monière (Université de Bretagne Sud & Lab-STICC, France); Bertrand Le Gal (Universite de Rennes, France); Emmanuel Boutillon (Université de Bretagne Sud, France)

Efficient Angular Localization in RIS-Assisted mmWave Network via Learning-Based Estimations–Md Tarek Hassan (Centre for Wireless Innovation, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dmitry E Zelenchuk (Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi (Queen’s University Belfast & Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI), United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arif Ullah (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))